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    Insomnia and hydrocortisone. Anyone have positive results?

    since there's been more discussion since i last posted in this thread i wanted to make a followup comment. while cortisol supplementation can make you feel better, ideally you'd fix whatever's going on that causes the imbalance in the first place. long term supplementation can also suppress...
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    Insomnia and hydrocortisone. Anyone have positive results?

    So do you take mass-produced 5 mg pills? If so, can you tell me more, like the brand or if there's anything special required to get them? As you can tell, I've been under the impression that such a product isn't available and that compounding is required.
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    Insomnia and hydrocortisone. Anyone have positive results?

    Are you talking about different doses of hydrocortisone, or just speaking about brand vs generics in a general sense of medications? Since I'm taking a 5 mg pill each day, just a big enough dose to get me up to normal levels (bioidentical hormone replacement, or something like that they call it)...
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    Insomnia and hydrocortisone. Anyone have positive results?

    It's hard to quantify how much improvement I saw after I started taking hydrocortisone, but it was a lot. Not only do I have an easier time sleeping overall but I also feel a lot less crappy when I get too little sleep, and my energy is better overall. Before taking hydrocortisone, when I got...
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    Insomnia and hydrocortisone. Anyone have positive results?

    I had a similar cortisol profile. Too low morning and midday, and then normal in the afternoon and at night, so there wasn't enough of a drop from early day to late day to help me transition in and out of sleep. I starting taking hydrocortisone at 5 mg/day and it definitely helped my insomnia...